Beria
Beria is a Saharan language spoken in Sudan, Chad, and Libya, by about 274 thousand people.
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Zaghawa (Zaghawa: ) is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Zaghawa people of east-central Chad (in the Sahel) and northwestern Sudan (Darfur). The people who speak this language call it Beria, from Beri, the endonym of the Zaghawa people, and a, Zaghawa for "mouth". It has been estimated that there are about 447,400 native speakers of the Zaghawa language, who primarily live in Chad and the Darfur region of Sudan. It is also spoken by a smaller number of people in Libya.
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Words in Beria
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| man | boru | |
| woman | bago | |
| water | bi | |
| one | nî | |
| two | suwi | |
| three | we | |
| tea | shay |
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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